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Lexicon :: Strong's H3478 - yiśrā'ēl

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יִשְׂרָאֵל
Transliteration
yiśrā'ēl
Pronunciation
yis-raw-ale'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

יִשְׂרָאֵל Yisrâʼêl, yis-raw-ale'; from H8280 and H410; he will rule as God; Jisraël, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity:—Israel.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2,505x

The KJV translates Strong's H3478 in the following manner: Israel (2,489x), Israelites (16x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2,505x
The KJV translates Strong's H3478 in the following manner: Israel (2,489x), Israelites (16x).

  1. Israel = "God prevails"

    1. the second name for Jacob given to him by God after his wrestling with the angel at Peniel

    2. the name of the descendants and the nation of the descendants of Jacob

      1. the name of the nation until the death of Solomon and the split

      2. the name used and given to the northern kingdom consisting of the 10 tribes under Jeroboam; the southern kingdom was known as Judah

      3. the name of the nation after the return from exile

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יִשְׂרָאֵל Yisrâʼêl, yis-raw-ale'; from H8280 and H410; he will rule as God; Jisraël, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity:—Israel.
STRONGS H3478: Abbreviations
יִשְׂרָאֵל 2507 proper name, masculine and of a people Israel (Ēl persisteth, persevereth (or jussive Let Ēl persist) [usually contendeth (NesEg.60 ff.) or Let Ēl contend (GrayProp. N. 218), but see DrHast. DB JACOB 530]; on vocalization see LagBN 131 f. Kit 1 Chronicles 4:16 (Hpt); MI5, + 5 times ישראל; in Egyptian Y-si-r-'l SteindZAW xvi (1896), 331, compare BreastedBib. World ix (1897), 62 ff. PatonSyr. and Pal. 134; Assyrian Sir-'-lai (= יִשְׂרְאֵלִי) SchrKG 356 ff., 364; COT Genesis 36:31; 1 Kings 16:29. — On a possibly relation of יִשׂ׳ to proper name שָׂרַי, שָׂרָה see RSK 257, 2nd ed. 34; — compare שְׂרָיָה(וּ); — Ισραηλ:
1. proper name, masculine. second name of Jacob Genesis 32:29 + 28 times Genesis (JE), Exodus 32:13 (JE), Hosea 12:13; Judges 18:29; Exodus 6:14; Numbers 1:20; Numbers 26:5 (all P), 2 Kings 17:34; 1 Chronicles 1:34 + 8 times Chronicles, Psalm 105:23; בֵּית יִשׂ׳ Ruth 4:11; בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳ (literal) Genesis 42:5 + 3 times E, + 2 times P + Exodus 1:7 (P; transition to wider use), 1 Kings 18:31; 1 Chronicles 2:1 +; = 12 tribes Exodus 28:9 + 7 times P; אֱלֹהֵי אַבְרָהָם יִצְחָק וְיִשׂ׳ 1 Kings 18:36; 1 Chronicles 29:18; 2 Chronicles 30:6.
2. proper name, of a people (usually masculineJudges 11:17 f but feminine 1 Samuel 17:21; 2 Samuel 24:9 [not || 1 Chronicles 21:5], compare Dron the passage AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 57 f.): name of Hebrew nation; usually derived from 1, but יִשׂ׳ more common in early usage than בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳ (see בֵּן):
a.
(1) undivided kingdom; יִשׂ׳ Genesis 47:27 (J), Genesis 49:7 (poem in J) + 108 times J E, Deuteronomy 1:1; Deuteronomy 18:6; Deuteronomy 33:10 (poem) + 76 times D, Genesis 34:7; Exodus 12:15 + 42 times P; Judges 5:2, 7 (twice in verse) + 104 times Judges; often 1 and 2 Samuel; 1 Kings 1-12; כָּליִֿשׂ׳ of whole people 2 Samuel 8:15 +, of whole army 2 Samuel 11:1 +, opposed to Judah 2 Samuel 2:9 + (so also later).
(2) יִשׂ׳ = Northern tribes, distinguished from Judah, even before disruption, 2 Samuel 2:9, compare 2 Samuel 2:10; 2 Samuel 3:10; 2 Samuel 4:1; 2 Samuel 5:5; 2 Samuel 12:7; 2 Samuel 20:1; 1 Kings 1:35; 1 Kings 4:20; 1 Kings 5:5 +; so at disruption 1 Kings 12:16 (3 times in verse); 1 Kings 12:18, 19; then usually of Northern kingdom, till its fall, 1 Kings 12:28; 1Ki 24:7; 1Ki 24:10 + very often Kings, Amos 1:1; Amos 2:6; Amos 3:14 +, Hosea 1:5; Hosea 4:15 (twice in verse); Hosea 5:3 (twice in verse); Hosea 5:5 +, Micah 1:13, etc.
(3) יִשׂ׳ of Southern kingdom, Judah, rarely before fall of Samaria Isaiah 1:3; Isaiah 8:18; Micah 1:14, 15, so בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳ 1 Kings 12:17; after fall of Samaria, יִשׂ׳ (less often בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳) occurs of entire people, in reference to past or future 2 Kings 21:8; 2 Kings 23:22; Isaiah 17:9; Psalm 103:7; Jeremiah 2:3; Jeremiah 50:17, 19 +; יִשׂ׳ also = Judah Jeremiah 2:14, 31; Jeremiah 4:1 +, Ezekiel 13:2, 4, 16; Ezekiel 14:1, 7, 9 +, Isaiah 40:27; Isaiah 41:8; Isaiah 42:24 +, Ezra 2:59 = Nehemiah 7:61; Ezra 2:70; Ezra 3:11 +, Nehemiah 10:34; Nehemiah 10:3 +, Psalm 14:7 (twice in verse) = Psalm 53:7 [Psalm 53:6] (twice in verse), Psalm 147:2; Psalm 149:2 +, etc.
(4) usage in Chronicles: יִשׂ׳ of whole people 1 Chronicles 2:7 + 110 times, of Northern kingdom 2 Chronicles 11:1 + 16 times, of Judah 2 Chronicles 12:6; 19:8 + 9 times
(5) יִשׂ׳ personified as עֶבֶד י׳, Isaiah 44:1, 21; Isaiah 49:3.
b. בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳,
(1) of undivided people Exodus 1:12 (J), Exodus 3:9 (E) + 72 times J E, Deuteronomy 3:18; Deuteronomy 10:6 + 25 times D, Genesis 32:33 [Genesis 32:32] + 327 times P; Judges 1:1 + 60 times Judges; seldom 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 Kings 1-12; in 1 Kings 13—2 Kings 25 passive in reference to older history (rarely otherwise).
(2) seldom of Northern kingdom Amos 2:11 + 9 times Amos, Hosea; 2 Chronicles 13:12 + 7 times Chronicles.
(3) of Judah (late) Ezekiel 2:3; Nehemiah 1:6 (twice in verse); Ezra 3:1; Joel 4:16 +, 2 Chronicles 31:5.
c. בֵּית יִשׂ׳ Exodus 16:31; Exodus 40:38 + 142 times (see בַּיִת 5d (δ); + 81 times Ezekiel, where = Judah; see especially Exodus 37:16); שְׁנֵי בָֽתֵּי יִשׂ׳ Isaiah 8:14.
d. other phrases, see sub אִישׁ, אֶרֶץ, בַּת, בְּתוּלָה, גְּבוּל, הַר, כִּסֵּא, מֶלֶךְ, (נטה) מַטֶּה, (יעד) עֵדָה, עַם, שֵׁבֶט; also (in epithet of י׳) below אָבִיר, אוֺר, אֱלֹחִים, I. גָּוֺאל, מֶלֶךְ, מִקְוֶה (I. קוה), I. צוּר (V. צור), קָדוֺשׁ, I. רָעָה 1d (3).
†e. יִשׂ׳ = the laity, opposed to priests, etc. (late): Ezra 10:25; Nehemiah 11:3; 1 Chronicles 9:2; כָּליִֿשׂ׳ Ezra 2:70; Ezra 10:5; הָעָם יִשׂ׳ Ezra 9:1; בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳ Nehemiah 10:40, compare שְׁאָר יִשׂ׳ Nehemiah 11:20.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H3479.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

32:29; 32:32; 34:7; 36:31; 42:5; 47:27; 49:7

Exodus

1:7; 1:12; 3:9; 6:14; 12:15; 16:31; 28:9; 32:13; 37:16; 40:38

Numbers

1:20; 26:5

Deuteronomy

1:1; 3:18; 10:6; 18:6; 33:10

Judges

1:1; 5:2; 5:7; 11:17; 18:29

Ruth

4:11

1 Samuel

17:21

2 Samuel

2:9; 2:9; 2:10; 3:10; 4:1; 5:5; 8:15; 11:1; 12:7; 20:1; 24:9

1 Kings

1:35; 4:20; 5:5; 12:16; 12:17; 12:18; 12:19; 12:28; 16:29; 18:31; 18:36

2 Kings

17:34; 21:8; 23:22

1 Chronicles

1:34; 2:1; 2:7; 4:16; 9:2; 21:5; 29:18

2 Chronicles

11:1; 12:6; 13:12; 19:8; 30:6; 31:5

Ezra

2:59; 2:70; 2:70; 3:1; 3:11; 9:1; 10:5; 10:25

Nehemiah

1:6; 7:61; 10:3; 10:34; 11:3; 11:20

Psalms

14:7; 53:6; 103:7; 105:23; 147:2; 149:2

Isaiah

1:3; 8:14; 8:18; 17:9; 40:27; 41:8; 42:24; 44:1; 44:21; 49:3

Jeremiah

2:3; 2:14; 2:31; 4:1; 50:17; 50:19

Ezekiel

2:3; 13:2; 13:4; 13:16; 14:1; 14:7; 14:9

Hosea

1:5; 4:15; 5:3; 5:5; 12:13

Amos

1:1; 2:6; 2:11; 3:14

Micah

1:13; 1:14; 1:15

H3478

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Strong's Number H3478 matches the Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל (yiśrā'ēl),
which occurs 184 times in 154 verses in 'Jdg' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 4 (Jdg 1:1–Jdg 6:37)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:1 - After the death of Joshua, the people of Israel inquired of the LORD, “Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites, to fight against them?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 1:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:28 - When Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not drive them out completely.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:4 - As soon as the angel of the LORD spoke these words to all the people of Israel, the people lifted up their voices and wept.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:6 - When Joshua dismissed the people, the people of Israel went each to his inheritance to take possession of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:7 - And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work that the LORD had done for Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:10 - And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers. And there arose another generation after them who did not know the LORD or the work that he had done for Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:11 - And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:14 - So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them. And he sold them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:20 - So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he said, “Because this people have transgressed my covenant that I commanded their fathers and have not obeyed my voice,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:22 - in order to test Israel by them, whether they will take care to walk in the way of the LORD as their fathers did, or not.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:1 - Now these are the nations that the LORD left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had not experienced all the wars in Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:2 - It was only in order that the generations of the people of Israel might know war, to teach war to those who had not known it before.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:4 - They were for the testing of Israel, to know whether Israel would obey the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:5 - So the people of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:7 - And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. They forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asheroth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:8 - Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia. And the people of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:9 - But when the people of Israel cried out to the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer for the people of Israel, who saved them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:10 - The Spirit of the LORD was upon him, and he judged Israel. He went out to war, and the LORD gave Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand. And his hand prevailed over Cushan-rishathaim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:12 - And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done what was evil in the sight of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:13 - He gathered to himself the Ammonites and the Amalekites, and went and defeated Israel. And they took possession of the city of palms.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:14 - And the people of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:15 - Then the people of Israel cried out to the LORD, and the LORD raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. The people of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:27 - When he arrived, he sounded the trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim. Then the people of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he was their leader.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:30 - So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest for eighty years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:31 - After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed 600 of the Philistines with an oxgoad, and he also saved Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:1 - And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD after Ehud died.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:3 - Then the people of Israel cried out to the LORD for help, for he had 900 chariots of iron and he oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for twenty years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:4 - Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:5 - She used to sit under the palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the people of Israel came up to her for judgment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:6 - She sent and summoned Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh-naphtali and said to him, “Has not the LORD, the God of Israel, commanded you, ‘Go, gather your men at Mount Tabor, taking 10,000 from the people of Naphtali and the people of Zebulun.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:23 - So on that day God subdued Jabin the king of Canaan before the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:24 - And the hand of the people of Israel pressed harder and harder against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:2 - “That the leaders took the lead in Israel,
that the people offered themselves willingly,
bless the LORD!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:3 - “Hear, O kings; give ear, O princes;
to the LORD I will sing;
I will make melody to the LORD, the God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:5 - The mountains quaked before the LORD,
even Sinai before the LORD,[fn] the God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:7 - The villagers ceased in Israel;
they ceased to be until I arose;
I, Deborah, arose as a mother in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:8 - When new gods were chosen,
then war was in the gates.
Was shield or spear to be seen
among forty thousand in Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:9 - My heart goes out to the commanders of Israel
who offered themselves willingly among the people.
Bless the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:11 - To the sound of musicians[fn] at the watering places,
there they repeat the righteous triumphs of the LORD,
the righteous triumphs of his villagers in Israel.
“Then down to the gates marched the people of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:1 - The people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and the LORD gave them into the hand of Midian seven years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:2 - And the hand of Midian overpowered Israel, and because of Midian the people of Israel made for themselves the dens that are in the mountains and the caves and the strongholds.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:3 - For whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East would come up against them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:4 - They would encamp against them and devour the produce of the land, as far as Gaza, and leave no sustenance in Israel and no sheep or ox or donkey.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:6 - And Israel was brought very low because of Midian. And the people of Israel cried out for help to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:7 - When the people of Israel cried out to the LORD on account of the Midianites,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:8 - the LORD sent a prophet to the people of Israel. And he said to them, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: I led you up from Egypt and brought you out of the house of slavery.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:14 - And the LORD[fn] turned to him and said, “Go in this might of yours and save Israel from the hand of Midian; do not I send you?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:15 - And he said to him, “Please, Lord, how can I save Israel? Behold, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:36 - Then Gideon said to God, “If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:37 - behold, I am laying a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece alone, and it is dry on all the ground, then I shall know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said.”

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